That might sound odd coming from a comedian who brought the claims of sexual misconduct against Cosby back into the public eye — and perhaps ended the TV icon's career — by talking about the rape allegations against the 77-year-old comedian in an October show at Philadelphia's Trocadeo Theatre.

"I'm burned out on it, man, so let's talk about something else," Buress says in a telephone call from New Orleans to promote his March 27 performance at Sands Bethlehem Event Center, when he is asked about the fallout from the routine at the start of a telephone interview.

Told it's hard to ignore — more than 30 women have come forward with accusations against Cosby after Buress' bit went viral on YouTube and in media reports — Buress ends the conversation after just two minutes by hanging up.

A publicist later says in an email that Buress hung up because "he was just frustrated because there are so many other things that he has going on to talk about." The topic of Cosby had not been declared off limits when the interview was set up. A request to reschedule the interview was declined.

It's true Buress has lots of other things going on. He plays pediatric dentist Lincoln Rice on the hit Comedy Central sitcom "Broad City," which premiered its second season on Jan. 14 and has been renewed for a third. And he's the sidekick of Eric Andre on "The Eric Andre Show," which is in its third season on Adult Swim.

But nothing has come close to putting Buress in the public eye like the Cosby remarks. A video an audience member took on a cell phone was put on YouTube, then went viral after the news reports on it.

Buress started the routine by noting that 13 women leveled assault allegations against Cosby in a 2005 civil lawsuit filed by a woman who said Cosby drugged and raped her. After an out-of-court settlement, the civil case was dismissed.

"Bill Cosby has the f-----g smuggest old-black-man public persona, that I hate," Buress said in the routine. "He gets on TV [and says] 'Pull your pants up, black people, I was on TV in the '80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.' Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So that brings you down a couple notches. 'I don't curse on stage.' Well, yeah, you're a rapist, so, I'll take you sayin' lots of mother------s … if you weren't a rapist.

"I've done this bit on stage, and people don't believe," Buress continued. "People think I'm making it up. I'm like, 'Bill Cosby has a lot of rape allegations.' … If you didn't know about it, trust me. You leave here and Google 'Bill Cosby rape.' It's not funny. That … has more results than Hannibal Buress."

Reaction was swift. More than a half-dozen more women came forward with accusations against Cosby.

In January, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler included references to Cosby in their opening routine at the Golden Globe Awards. The Washington Post, calling the reaction "a frenzy," did an investigative series on the accusations.

Though he says he doesn't want to talk about it anymore, Buress, who was part of the roast after the derailed interview, joked about the topic. "Justin, I don't like your music," he told Bieber. "I hate your music. I hate your music more than Bill Cosby hates my comedy."

Buress also continues to address the topic in his stand-up shows, according to reviews of Buress' performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

"C'mon, chill out — pull back on me a little bit, media," the reviews quote him saying toward the end of his set. "They acted like I was a detective on the case. Like I found a Coogi sweater with roofie dust on it or something." He then joked about being paranoid about Cosby-hired assassins before dropping the subject.

The Buress publicist says in the e-mail that he "felt like he addressed it and wanted to move on." But Buress has spoken little about the subject in media interviews.

In a Feb. 23 interview in The San Francisco Chronicle, he said simply, "It's crazy." Pushed for more, he said, "I was doing a bit that I thought was funny. So I was talking about that in the same sense that I talk about rappers. … It was just a bit in my show. It's weird. It's very weird. It's a very weird situation."

Buress also told radio host Howard Stern, "It's just information that's out there, you know? It wasn't my contention to make it a part of a big discussion; it was just something I was doing at that venue right then. So for someone to put it to the media, it's crazy.

"I mean, I said it and I gotta stand on it, but it is an interesting situation."

Perhaps it's all the attention that has Buress rattled. For someone who has been a comedian for a decade, and had some high-profile positions, Buress was not known by the mainstream before the Cosby routine.

Buress's first big break was in the film "The Awkward Comedy Show," a documentary about nerdy black standup comics that premiered in 2010 on Comedy Central. He also appeared on the FX sitcom "Louie." In 2010, Variety magazine listed him among the "Ten Comics to Watch in 2010." That year he also released his first comedy album, "My Name is Hannibal."

He also was a writer on "Saturday Night Live" for one season and had a short-lived stint as a writer for the NBC comedy series "30 Rock." He finally started to get attention with the release of his second album, "Animal Furnace," in 2012, drawn from a special on Comedy Central.

Buress has appeared on late night talk shows such as Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night" and "The Tonight Show," "The Late Show with David Letterman" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

But it was with "Broad City," which premiered in January 2014, that Buress' career really started to gain traction. He also had a Comedy Central special, "Hannibal Buress Live from Chicago," later that year. And last summer he was part of the Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival, along with today's biggest comedy stars, including Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan, Dave Chappelle, Sarah Silverman and Louis C.K.

Before he ends the call to promote the Sands show, Buress says his show will be "stand-up comedy show — talking about stuff, man." He says it will incorporate musical elements — he has a DJ and has done routines where he riffs on rappers and their lyrics.

"It's a stand-up show and I think, for the most part, people have been enjoying it as I've been taking it on the road," he says.

Buress told Stern he had been doing the bit "on and off for six months, talking about the Cosby situation" before the Trocadero show. But surely Buress knew that the joke would resonate in Philadelphia, Cosby's hometown.